IndianEars
Well-Known Member
Given the very high technical quality of the SACD format, I feel that SACDs really require Top Notch players / DAC to fully reveal their potential.
Sadly, most SACD players cost a few hundred dollars and their DACs are not capable of fully revealing SACD's potential.
An Exceptional (but expensive) SACD player that I loved was the dCS Puccini SACD player of several years ago. That m/c really leaped ahead while playing SACDs, compared to CDs on the same machine.
Unfortunately, I have not heard the later dCS machines playing SACD.
The Oppo universal players ( not heard their last model) were nice but still did not do full justice to the SACD format.
That is why, I have pursued playing SACD iso Rips via my DAC, with JRiver (running on Win10).
Incidentally, iso rips can very quickly be split into individual tracks (10 seconds per iso file) using Sonore's ISO2DSD freeware. It offers you a choice of DFF or DSF output files.
Sadly, most SACD players cost a few hundred dollars and their DACs are not capable of fully revealing SACD's potential.
An Exceptional (but expensive) SACD player that I loved was the dCS Puccini SACD player of several years ago. That m/c really leaped ahead while playing SACDs, compared to CDs on the same machine.
Unfortunately, I have not heard the later dCS machines playing SACD.
The Oppo universal players ( not heard their last model) were nice but still did not do full justice to the SACD format.
That is why, I have pursued playing SACD iso Rips via my DAC, with JRiver (running on Win10).
Incidentally, iso rips can very quickly be split into individual tracks (10 seconds per iso file) using Sonore's ISO2DSD freeware. It offers you a choice of DFF or DSF output files.